
After bloating the Academy Awards ceremony with ten Best Picture nominees, Oscar producers are freeing up some space by nixing performances of the five Best Song nominees . Instead, the songs will be played in brief clips over footage from their respective films. For the record, we can't even pretend to hum the melody of any of these tracks ( which Entertainment Weekly 's Music Mix names "the worst nominations ever). Can you blame us? Not one of these songs made a "Jai-Ho"-sized splash in pop culture in 2009 [...]